Brown & Kempf, 1968: 184 (diagnosis, revision of tribe); Bolton, 2003: 51, 181 (diagnosis, synopsis); Boudinot, 2015: 46 (all sex diagnosis); Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 38.
Kempf, 1972b: 262 (Neotropical); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1985b: 258; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 80; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 16; Bolton, 1994: 105; Bolton, 2003: 181; Baroni Urbani & De Andrade, 2007: 75; Ward, 2007c: 555; Ward et al., 2015: 65.
Brady et al., 2006: 18173; Moreau et al., 2006: 102; Keller, 2011: 1 (morphology, phylogeny); Ward et al., 2015: 65 phylogeny, reclassification).
Keller, 2011: 1.
Donoso, 2019: 631 (Colombia species); Feitosa & Dias, 2024: 20 (key to Brazil genera).
Extant: 2 valid tribes, 2 valid genera, 2 valid species (1 synonym)
Fossil: 2 valid genera (1 homonym), 3 valid species (2 obsolete combinations)